Nightwish – Out of Control (1989)

Nightwish – Out of Control: Directed by Bruce R. Cook. With Brian Thompson, Jack Starrett, Elizabeth Kaitan, Alisha Das. A professor and four graduate students journey to a house in the mountains to investigate paranormal activities, but the experiment goes awry after an alien entity starts attacking them.

“When I picked the unrated version of this stupid piece of sci-fi junk up in a video store, I thought Iu0026#39;d really like it a lot. The box made it look like one of those movies where anything can happen (due to a plot rooted in the dream-vs.-reality subgenre), which the freaky pictures seemed evidence of. It was the unrated version, so I thought Iu0026#39;d give it a look. Expecting an imaginative and scary film, I got what turned out to be the opposite. Even the original ideas it could have done so much with donu0026#39;t seem original when the movie is boring dreck. It quickly sinks into another boring plot about aliens impersonating people, with only one truly creepy moment out of the entire film (u0026quot;Do I look dead to you?u0026quot;). As far as the rest of it goes, the only other redeeming point (and the biggest enigma of the film) is that, regardless of whether youu0026#39;re enjoying it or not (which I wasnu0026#39;t), it oddly manages to maintain a feel of heavy dread (with no real pay-off, of course). Furthermore, why was this unrated? I have seen so many R-rated films of times recent and old that have much nastier stuff in them than this film has. (Not that I think a movie has to be gory to be good, but it would have at least livened up this crappy movie.) I would have to recommend this more to sci-fi fans than horror fans, but even the many sci-fi fans Iu0026#39;ve known would probably hate this stupid movie.”